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Gene silencing: Maintaining methylation patterns.
Current biology : CB - 26 Aug 1999
Jacobsen S E
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies of an Arabidopsis gene family have shown that inverted repeats can be potent silencers of other identical sequences in the genome, causing them to become stably methylated at cytosine residues. From mutations affecting this process we are beginning to understand how methylation patterns are maintained.
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